Authentically depicting racial difference was a representational problem forboth white and minority authors in the 1890s. How did "local color" and/orregional writing become a way to both deal with and evade the problems of racethat affected American life? Especially welcome is work that moves beyond thetraditional black/white dichotomy that often frames discussions of race in theperiod. How can critical inquiry concerning representations of NativeAmericans, Asian Americans, Spanish Americans, as well as the white ethnicminorities that increasingly populated American cities (Jewish Americans,Irish Americans, and even rural Southern whites) help complicate our notionsof racial difference in the short fiction of the period? Send 1-2 pageabstracts to Tom Morgan at tlmorgan_at_utk.edu by January 15, 2006.